Location: Eastern Islands of Dharma

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Aggieland of Bergnovinaia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Keenan Roberts with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 6.107 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Education, although Healthcare and the Environment are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of College Station. The average income tax rate is 69%, and even higher for the wealthy. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

The minority party is vilified for everything from fires to earthquakes, badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game, 12th man is one of the most popular forenames in Bergnovinaia, and army rations are served on silver platters. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bergnovinaia's national animal is the 12th man, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, its national religion is Christianity, and its currency is the Scholarship.

Bergnovinaia is ranked 10th in Eastern Islands of Dharma and 18,364th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 16 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and